Donald Trump’s “smocking gun” meltdown is a punchline, but it’s also an unwitting felony confession

| 2:05 pm EST December 10, 2018
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Yesterday we got a hint of Donald Trump’s latest absurd line of legal defense when his lawyer Rudy Giuliani tweeted that he didn’t necessarily know whether Donald Trump committed a crime. When that’s the logic you’re reduced to, you’re in trouble. Sure enough, Trump woke up today and decided that, instead of pretending he’s innocent, he’d simply brag that there’s no “smoking gun” to prove his guilt. Unfortunately for him, he doesn’t know how to spell the word “smoking.”

That’s right, Donald Trump unwittingly declared that there is no “smocking gun” against him. The jokes came fast and furious in response, and in fact are still coming, as #SmockingGun is the top trend on Twitter. But even as we chuckle yet again over the fact that the illegitimate President of the United States is semi-illiterate, let’s not look past the weakness of the legal defense Trump is resorting to here, and what he just basically confessed to:

“Democrats can’t find a Smocking Gun tying the Trump campaign to Russia after James Comey’s testimony. No Smocking Gun…No Collusion.” @FoxNews That’s because there was NO COLLUSION. So now the Dems go to a simple private transaction, wrongly call it a campaign contribution, which it was not (but even if it was, it is only a CIVIL CASE, like Obama’s – but it was done correctly by a lawyer and there would not even be a fine. Lawyer’s liability if he made a mistake, not me). Cohen just trying to get his sentence reduced. WITCH HUNT!

In his desperation to somehow spin his own very real felonies into a phony Obama scandal, Donald Trump is admitting that a crime was committed when he instructed Michael Cohen to commit campaign finance felonies – he’s just pretending that Cohen was the only one who broke the law when he followed Trump’s orders. At least that’s what we think he just said, because this tweet is even more incoherent than usual. In any case, Trump misspelled “smoking gun” just as NRA operative Maria Butina finally cut her plea deal today, so that’s rather fitting.